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Cushion   /kˈʊʃən/   Listen
noun
Cushion  n.  
1.
A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad. "Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise."
2.
Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use; as:
(a)
A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf;
(b)
A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston;
(c)
The elastic edge of a billiard table.
3.
A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; called also cushion dance.
Cushion capital.(Arch.)
(a)
A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature.
(b)
A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.
Cushion star (Zool.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; so called from its form.


verb
Cushion  v. t.  (past & past part. cushioned; pres. part. cushioning)  
1.
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. "Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity."
2.
To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
3.
To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Cushion" Quotes from Famous Books



... satisfied with the surroundings as his master. The chair cushion was particularly soft, and he curled himself into a little ring with a sigh of content which told that if the question of leaving the Morse farm might be decided by him, he and his master would remain there ...
— Aunt Hannah and Seth • James Otis
... the hills at a little distance, whence they could see every thing that passed. At first they were very quiet. But when they saw the English Court Book Spread out on a cushion before the clerk, and apparently taken in a line of direction, interfering with what they considered to be their privileged ground, it was with great difficulty that the most moderate of them, could restrain the rest from running ...
— A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies • John Hoyland
... utility; there was a popular belief that beautiful things were expensive, and the thrifty housekeeper who had no money to put into bric-a-brac never thought of such things as an artistic lamp shade or a well-coloured sofa cushion. Decorative art is well defined by Mr. Russell Sturgis: "Fine art applied to the making beautiful or interesting that which is ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... descend into a garden of plain turf, mured about by an occluding wall, with an alley of lime trees for sober pacing: then and there is the fit time and place for the first pipe of the day. Pack your mixture in the bowl; press it lovingly down with the cushion of the thumb; see that the draught is free—and then for your saeckerhets taendstickor! A day so begun is well begun, and sin will flee your precinct. Shog, vile care! The smoke is cool and blue and tasty on the tongue; the arch ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... wanted to," the boy replied. "Only it very seldom does. You see, we only use this lift for our customers. It's fitted with what they call a pneumatic cushion—I mean, if anything goes wrong, the lift falls into a funnel shaped well, made of concrete, which forms a cushion of air, and so breaks the fall. They say you could cut the rope and let it down without so much as upsetting ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White


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